ANDREWS Tipper Hire, a supplier of tipper haulage and aggregate deliveries, is using Edinburgh-based Podfather’s logistics software to manage the transport of materials to and from Junction 10 on the M25.
Working for Balfour Beatty, Andrews is operating a fleet delivering aggregates and removing waste material from the site. Using the Podfather App, the firm’s drivers access detailed load information, whilst real-time tracking provides total visibility for management teams. Drivers also use the app to capture evidence of loads collected and delivered.
One of the busiest motorway junctions in the country, Junction 10 of the M25 near Wisley in Surrey, sees around 300,000 vehicles travelling through it every day. A three-year project to improve it will reduce congestion, provide a smoother flow of traffic and improve safety. The £250 million project included the demolition of Clearmont Bridge, which produced 3,000 tonnes of waste material and took 80 trucks more than 24 hours to clear away.
Andrews Tippers has a fleet of over 100 trucks working on sites such as the M25 junction improvement works as well as HS2 construction, A12 concrete road scheme with Tom Blackwell, and the A249 improvement with Graham Construction.
The business originally introduced Podfather’s waste ticketing solution to replace its previous paper-based system. Having trialled the system on other projects, Andrews was keen to deploy it on M25 Junction 10 works to reduce admin, improve efficiency and responsiveness, and provide total visibility.
“Podfather simplifies the management of a complex, fast moving and ever-changing schedule,” said Tim Page, transport manager at Andrews Tipper Hire. “Using Podfather we have complete visibility of where our drivers are, what materials they are carrying, and where they are going. This information is available to our client’s on-site management team which means we, and they, can react as situations change and evolve.”
Michael Ward, logistics coordinator at Balfour Beatty, added, “The use of Podfather on this project was a contributing factor in our selection of Andrews as haulage partner. Digital ticketing, real-time visibility and enhanced reporting all make for a more efficient and more reactive operation.”
Andrews uses Podfather to plan and allocate loads to each of the 30 vehicles working on the project. Digital tickets, including collection and tip locations, as well as the type of material to be moved, are sent directly to the driver’s tablet and accessed using the Podfather App.
At the start of each shift drivers are guided through a series of vehicle checks to ensure the road-worthiness of the vehicle with responses captured and stored within Podfather for compliance and H&S monitoring. Drivers also use the app to record evidence of materials transported or loads ‘dropped’.
